form 2 form

buzzby

i have a form. the form name is getstarted.php

the action is getstarted.php

the forms basically validates itself, thru a script, then submits the data into a database. no problem there.

what i want to do now is have a form located on a different page transport its data to the getstarted.php form. i have tried to have 2 files. send.htm and recieve.php. the send file i can fill out because its a normal htm form. the action on that form is getstarted.php this will then send the info to getstarted.php. the thing is that because the form getstarted.php has an action that is also getstarted.php the info gets submitted rather than going into the form where other data can be filled in. how do i get the send.htm to submit data to getstarted.php without getstarted submitting?

dnast

I'm assuming you're using

if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {

If so, then for your HTML-only form just give the submit button a different name, like

Then you would have separate blocks of code depending on which submit button was pressed.

if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
...
//submit and insert data into database
...
}
elseif (isset($_POST['reiterate'])) {
...
//display form with values from other form
...
}
else {
//Show blank form
}

buzzby

i have an error on this line:

echo "<input type='text' name='name' value='($_POST['name'])'>";

i am trying to pass the name value of a htm form to a php form using the example above but i think i have the code wrong. can you hint what is wrong please?

buzzby

if (isset($_POST['submit'])) 
{
$user="";
$host="localhost";
$password="";
$database="";
//do database stuff
} 
elseif (isset($_POST['sendtoform'])) {
echo $_POST['name'];
//i am not sure how to get the info from
//htm form 1 into this present php form
//what line should i use to do it?
}
else 
{ //print form

the submit button from the htm for is this:

<input type="submit" name="sendtoform" value="submit" />

what i am i doing wrong?

dnast

echo "<input type='text' name='name' value='".$_POST['name']."'>";

It would probably be easier to just copy and paste the blank form and insert the values like

<input type="text" name="name" value="<?=$_POST['name']?>" />

What's exactly is not working with the other code?

buzzby

using the same technology here how do i pass the value of a checkbox from one form to another. i have managed to do the textfield but i need to do the same for a checkbox.

dnast

One way is

<input type="checkbox" name="check"<? if ($_POST['check']) { echo ' checked="checked"'; } ?>>

I guess if your checkboxes are in an array it still wouldn't be much different.

(Grrr...at the final format of that line of code)